Politics + Government

What we need our leaders to do about the oil spill is to listen to things from all sides and exercise judgment – calm, sound judgment. Not a soul on the earth has any experience capping a mile-deep oil well. Nothing in our leaders experience will help them. We’re going to have to hope that they are smart and not unnerved by the ridiculous pressures that come from outside the problem. We’re going to have to hope that what the public thinks about what they are doing to work the problem doesn’t change how they actually work the problem. The situation itself is pressure enough.